2048-bit key...I'm leery
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Sun Dec 25 14:12:12 PST 1994
For the first key you were just plain lucky. Most likely the first or
second number you tried happened to be a prime, so it found its p and
q fairly easily. Thats all.
The 10 minutes is much closer to the average expected time.. But the
probability is linear between the two primes you choose, so you happened
to choose _just before_ a prime. Lucky you!
-derek
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